Success Stories: NIW Petition and Green Card Approved for Physician from Saudi Arabia in the Field of Clinical Medicine

Client’s Testimonial:

“I had an excellent experience with the Chen Law group. The online portal was a great platform for questions along the way and they attorneys were very quick with a reply. They are all very experience and really guided me with with their best advices to my GC approval via the EB2-NIW pathway.”

On September 2^nd, 2016, we received another EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval for a Fellow in the Field of Clinical Medicine (Approval Notice).

General Field: Clinical Medicine

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Fellow

Country of Origin: Saudi Arabia

Service Center: Nebraska Service Center (NSC)

State of Residence at the Time of Filing: Rhode Island

Approval Notice Date: September 2^nd, 2016

Processing Time: 8 months, 30 days

Case Summary:

Last year, we filed an EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) petition for a gifted physician from Saudi Arabia. With an M.B.B.S. and years of experience working in the field of clinical medicine, our client was a suitable candidate for the national interest waiver. Nearly three months after we filed the EB-2 NIW petition on her behalf, we filed an I-485 application for her. This is the final step in the green card process and an approval means acquiring a green card. Because our client chose to file her I-485 while her NIW was pending approval, she only waited 2.5 months after her NIW was approved to receive notification of I-485 approval. She is now a proud American permanent resident and we congratulate her on this achievement.

So what did we do to help our client obtain her EB-2 NIW petition approval? For one, we amassed plenty of information on her research and concluded that her investigations on cancer cell biology and enhanced patient treatment strategies are essential to the overall health and well-being of Americans. Furthermore, we demonstrated that her scientific results have directly contributed to the greater overall medical research community, including efforts in Cancer Biology and Cancer Epigenetics.

Another one of our goals was to convince the USCIS that other expert researchers agree that our client is not just an asset to the field but to the US as a whole. We achieved this by encouraging our client to contact her peers and ask them to sign recommendation letters. Five experts agreed to lend their support, one of whom stated that “The research community of the United States would simply not have as clear of an understanding of cancer as they do today without the work of [Client], and the terminating of her work in this country would constitute a dire setback to United States cancer research efforts.” Besides recommendation letters, our client’s EB-2 NIW petition also contained data on her publication record (8 scientific articles) and citation count at the time of filing (87 citations).

In conclusion, we are pleased that our diligent efforts paid off and our client is now an American permanent resident. We thank her for trusting us to help her reach the finish line and we wish her the best as she continues to progress the life-saving field of clinical medicine.

North America Immigration Law Group (Chen Immigration Law Associates) is a U.S. immigration law firm dedicated to representing corporations, research institutions, and individuals from all 50 U.S. states regarding I-140 immigration petitions. We specialize in employment-based immigration petition and have a proven record of high success rate for the categories of: EB2-NIW (National Interest Waiver), EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability), EB1-B (Outstanding Researcher/Professor) and O-1 (Alien of Extraordinary Ability).

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